NIAS Workshop Women Writers in History: national and transnational approaches

Between 2013 and 2016 the European HERA Travelling TexTs project was being carried out in 5 countries – one of those being the Netherlands, more precisely The Hague: Huygens ING. The other countries were the United Kingdom (with the project leader in Glasgow), Finland, Norway and Slovenia. This research project had been prepared during a European COST Action, and was being done within an online database. The database itself was also completely restructured, extended and further developed – allowing new research. Some of the outcomes were already presented and published; two books are to follow.

This central database, transformed into the NEWW VRE (NEWW as: New approaches to European Women’s Writing) will be presented to colleagues, students and interested readers of women’s literature, June 14th and 15th in Amsterdam, during a NIAS workshop organized at Spinhuis.

This workshop will illustrate the progress made – thanks to the COST and HERA projects, as well as to support by NWO, SURF and CLARIN-NL – for research about women’s literary history. The ways in which the NEWW VRE is functioning will be demonstrated. This tool will indeed be also at the core of future and ongoing collaboration: in the form of a recently created DARIAH Working Group, entitled Women Writers in History. We will highlight the coherence and continuity between the earlier research, digitizing and internationalizing projects and this new, more open, situation as a Working Group.

The workshop will be held in English and covers 2 days: the “presentation day” on 14 June will be followed by an expert meeting on 15 June in which Working Group members will discuss their future collaboration.

Colleagues and interested readers, specialist and non-specialists are invited to take part in the “presentation day” on 14 June, where speakers will include:

• Marie Nedregotten Sørbø (Volda University College, Norway)
• Amelia Sanz (Complutense University Madrid, Spain)
• Orsi Réthelyi (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary and Huygens ING)
• Isabel Lousada (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Lotte Jensen (Radboud University Nijmegen)
• Petra Broomans (Groningen University)

Click here to view the programme.

Anyone interested is welcome to join us on 14 June, register on this page to join.

Colleagues, MA students, stake-holders in Cultural Heritage Institutions can join the discussions of the expert meeting on 15 June – please take contact with organizer Suzan van Dijk: suzan.van.dijk@huygens.knaw.nl.

FAQ

How can I reach the organisation?

You can send an e-mail to: congres@huygens.knaw.nl